Category Archives: IIS

Introduction

When you install Windows, it doesn’t automatically install IIS for you. Instead, you have to install it manually. If you have downloaded a new version of IIS from IIS website, you can use the setup file to install IIS on your machine. If you prefer the version of IIS that ships with your Windows edition, you can install it using Windows Components installer, and that what we are going to do next.

You can also select any additional services to install from the child nodes (e.g. FTP services.)

Click OK to complete the installation. A system reboot might be required.

Figure 2 - Installing IIS on Windows Vista and Windows 7

Now go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools to run the IIS. You can also go to http://localhost to see your new homepage.

Running IIS

Personally, I don’t like running IIS from Administrative Tools. I like to use the Run command to run everything on my PC and that’s, on my opinion, 3 times faster than everything else (of course when using the keyboard not the mouse.)

To be able to launch IIS from the Run command, you need to add the IIS directory (%windir%System32inetsrv) to the command search path which is available in system environment variables, and that can be done using the following steps: